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Building a Mobile Device Lab

A lot happens in a week on vacation. The US government stays in business, Apple is apparently sucking up all the smartphone profits, and I joined the Board of Directors at Mobile Portland!

What’s Mobile Portland? From the site: “Mobile Portland is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, promoting and supporting the mobile technology community in Portland, Oregon and the surrounding areas.”

One of the major challenges for [mobile] platform vendors, carriers, and handset manufacturers is how to make sure the best apps are available on their products. One of the biggest challenges for mobile developers and businesses is getting access to devices for testing. Not even the largest of companies can afford to purchase all of the possible devices on which their software or services may run on.

If you think about it, this is a major challenge. Even if you are developing for iOS only, you still have to support multiple versions of the operating system on iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad 2 and multiple generations of iPod touches. Add to the mix Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry alone and we are talking a mess of devices.

I’m excited to be involved and happy Jason asked me to join the Board! Great things ahead.